The new site Pope Benedict XVI tweeted about will serve as a one-stop-shop aggregator of news from the Vatican's various information sources: Vatican Radio, Vatican Television, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the Holy See's press office and Fides, the Vatican's missionary news agency, said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No.

In a statement the Vatican said the planned ruling will create a compliance body to oversee all its finances, as required by the European Unionand other international organisationsthat arecombating money laundering.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, 78, Vatican Secretary of State, will be replaced by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 71, of Genoa, at one time Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Cardinal Ratzinger as Prefect.

The drama is intense, and Kertzer's conclusion is that today, while Italy remains a secular state with Rome as its capital, it is the Pope, living in Vatican City (the negotiations establishing this compromise are detailed in this book), who holds the moral authority in the country and around the world, marginalizing the leaders of the Italian revolution.

Gay men and lesbians who were wondering just how far Pope Benedict XVI would take his decades-old homophobic agenda had to wait only a few months: The Vatican is finalizing a document intended to renew its efforts to purge gay priests.

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